She yelled at him about his constant drunkenness. 她大嚷大叫说他总是烂醉如泥.
drunkenness
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a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
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habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
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the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
<noun.act> drink was his downfall
Drunkenness \Drunk"en*ness\, n. 1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.
The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. --I. Watts.
2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. -- South.
Syn: Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- {Drunkenness}, {Intoxication}, {Inebriation}. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. ``This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.'' --Burke.
After three years of temperance, Soviet citizens seem to have decided there are worse things than drunkenness.
Chernobyl is plagued with sloppy repairs, nepotism and drunkenness among workers at the nuclear plant, Pravda said.
A town council candidate was charged with public drunkenness while he was doing some last-minute campaigning the day before the election.
But champions of the new hours point out that extended hours in Scotland, introduced over a decade ago, were followed by a reduced incidence of drunkenness and violence.
The Office of Special Investigations handles security at the 5,000-acre Air Force base and crimes above the level of drunkenness or brawling.
Somehow the attractions of drunkenness combined with stupidity and aggression seem to have passed me by.
When Maureen Reagan, the former president's daughter, showed up in an African country a few years ago, the local U.S. ambassador received her at the airport in an advanced state of drunkenness.
The jury also heard testimony from relatives of 26 of the 27 victims, from police and a medical expert about Mahoney's level of drunkenness, and from the state's chief medical examiner about the victims' autopsy results.
Mr. Godber sees only drunkenness, promiscuity, violence and humiliation.
Pettersson, a 42-year-old social misfit with a long record of crime, drunkenness and drug abuse, was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment.
Meanwhile, Myers chose not to prosecute nonviolent crimes such as public drunkenness and camping in parks.
Larger problems took place Friday night when police made about 60 arrests, mostly for public drunkenness and disturbing the peace, and wrote about 200 citations, Lt.
Consumption was massive and drunkenness became such a problem that a referendum was taken on whether to ban alcohol sales altogether.
David O'Hara and Ken Stott both give excellent performances, relishing at first the romping comedy, then realising sharply the helpless drunkenness that follows. All that is on the one hand.
Police in Tampa, Fla., have recorded about 200 visits to one Motel 6 in the past 12 months for incidents ranging from public drunkenness and assault to burglary and robbery.
Pubs and bars throughout England and Wales will be allowed to stay open through the afternoon starting today, ending a 73-year-old policy and arousing some fears of increased drunkenness and violence.
He said it ruined him and he couldn't tell right from wrong when he was arrested by Tompkins for drunkenness in 1979.
At Truck Garage No. 21 in southeastern Moscow, supervisor Sergei Borisov said he had to fire 120 people for drunkenness between 1985 and 1988, or 20 percent of his workers.
It said five Swedish youths were arrested on charges of hooliganism, theft and drunkenness.
Defense attorneys had acknowledged that Mahoney was drinking on the day of the accident, but they argued that a defective bus design was the primary cause of the deaths, and that he had been tricked into drunkenness.